So we were watching the Illini's 89-64 victory over Southeast Missouri State last night — we have the ESPN Full Court package; you honestly do not want to know how much money we give that network — and when it was over, we flipped around the other games. It was a bad Full Court night; nothing but blowouts, except for channel 428. Oklahoma was barely beating Oral Roberts. This is a team, by the way; not Oral Roberts himself, though we hear his crossover would be killer were killing not a sin.

Oklahoma ended up winning, but Oral Roberts, off to a slower-than-expected 5-6 start, is still the favorite to win the Mid-Continent conference and make its first NCAA tournament. It would be the biggest event ever for the Golden Eagles to make the tournament; before now, the school's claim to fame was once having a pre-toupee Bill Self as coach and NBA journeyman Haywoode Workman.

But if Oral Roberts does win the Mid-Continent tournament this year and make the NCAAs, it will be important to remember what really got them there. Oral Roberts is, of course, more than a university; it's also the namesake of televangelist Oral Roberts. In case you have forgotten, Roberts is the very same man who, in 1987, told his faith that if they did not raise $8 million by March, God would "call him home." (They hit the number.) Roberts has claimed to have personally raised the dead and said last year that a vision of a "cloud over New York" has told him Christ is coming soon. (After he dies, Roberts has told followers that he plans to return and rule the world with Christ.)